Example sentences of "find [pers pn] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dudek flicked over the pages , found them to be a little better , but still somewhat hum-drum . |
| 2 | I found them to be cheerful , reassuring old men , and delightful conversationalists . |
| 3 | R. scotica was noted by Miller as the ‘ Burnet-leaved rose with a livid red flower ’ and , having had dried specimens of R. alpina sent to him from Italy , he found them to be exactly the same . |
| 4 | Li and her coworkers have been able to locate these sequence variations ( which geneticists have identified in amino acid sequences as important for target specificity ) in the three-dimensional structure of the toxin , and found them to be concentrated in the β sheets of domain II . |
| 5 | The more usual situation is where payment is ‘ at sight ’ meaning when the paying bank has examined the documents and found them to be in order or at a determinable future date — for example ‘ 90 days sight ’ meaning that payment will be made to the exporter 90 days after the paying bank has examined the documents . |
| 6 | It was on that occasion — in the strangely bare study of Darlington Hall — that Mr Farraday shook my hand for the first time , but by then we were hardly strangers to each other ; quite aside from the matter of the staff , my new employer in several other instances had had occasion to call upon such qualities as it may be my good fortune to possess and found them to be , I would venture , dependable . |
| 7 | During the strike , the police found them to be a useful device with which to restrict the freedom of movement of pickets . |
| 8 | AB still appears shorter than BC even after I have measured them and found them to be equal . |
| 9 | The judge found them to be in contempt and committed each to prison for a term of four months . |
| 10 | On finally seeing these creatures , mating in the high forest canopy like cataracts of spun glass , we found them to be transparent with a deeper meaning , something which lay beyond them , in the undiscovered wisdom of the islanders themselves . |
| 11 | In some cases , important labour market actors are uncertain of them , and in the course of certain of our case studies [ see Chapter 7 ] we found them to be a source of confusion . |
| 12 | Cornelius rummaged through the contents of the boot and found them to be very oily indeed . |
| 13 | The C-terminal portion of region 1 , poorly conserved in the related IE proteins of the α-herpesviruses , was also included in our expressed peptide ; the role played by these additional residues is not fully understood but deletion analysis on the 140k DNA binding domain found them to be necessary for the production of a clear DNase I footprint but not for binding in gel retardation assays ( see below ) . |
| 14 | So it was nonetheless interesting recently to undergo a full battery of professional and occupational psychology tests which found me to be thoroughly rounded in skills and attitudes , a good communicator both normally and at times of stress and so on . |
| 15 | The Herald spoke to Patricia Routledge and found her to be keen to return to the Yvonne Arnaud , where the audiences recently warmed to her in Alan Bennett 's Talking Heads . |
| 16 | When interviewing Margaret , the therapist found her to be moderately depressed , but to an extent in keeping with her problems . |
| 17 | Miss T. was then examined by the obstetrics registrar who found her to be in a distressed condition with respiratory pain and contractions . |
| 18 | BELVILLE : I found her to be a coquette , an told her so and she is offended . |
| 19 | In a feature interview with Percy Grainger next day I found him to be a charming and modest man , and was glad to write in glowing terms of his keyboard mastery , his repertoire , and his travels . |
| 20 | For confirmation I visited him in prison , where in protest against his incarceration he had put himself in solitary confinement , and found him to be sandy-haired , bullet-headed and verbose , yet with a redeeming sense of humour ; his passionate denials of having played any part in the Ayr murder were too convincing to have been invented . |
| 21 | Instead she stood with her eyes closed , lest they betrayed the fact that she found him to be disturbing to her . |
| 22 | When we started rehearsing , I found him to be very friendly and lots of fun , like a younger brother or son . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I found him to be a wise friend and an exemplorary leader of the western world . |
| 24 | When the three met with Father Vinko , the parish priest at Caratis , they found him to be a cheerful ‘ hands on ’ worker . |
| 25 | This would solve the problem choosing a new amp and getting to a gig only to find it to be a wimp . |
| 26 | I found it to be quiet , even when under pressure , and the hooked power pack means that it can be hung conveniently out of the way . |
| 27 | When I got closer I found it to be empty and forgotten ; cattle grazed up to its outer walls , its projecting porch was thick with ivy , its gardens with nettles . |
| 28 | I bought the magazine , Shannonside , and found it to be very interesting . |
| 29 | And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be |
| 30 | Richard found it to be a ‘ town … full of temptations ’ . |